We are doing a lot of development so far but everything takes so long to do.
What we have to do to meet the requirements of JISC - our funders
Initially I had hoped that we would have finalised the project with one of our main funders, JISC, but I am still heavily involved in writing a project plan which is requiring us all to investigate and firm up issues that I had hoped we would be able to explore at our lesiure throughout the autumn and spring term of the next academic year. The main issues here are how we are going to use blogs and wikis and how we will support our students. There are no issues around using Moodle. Today we had a very constructive meeting where we firmed up how we would use blogs and wikis. As always these meetings raise more questions that supply ansers or resolve things as the project is so big
The Validation of the Degree by SHU
Up till a week ago this was stalled as the senior managment at SHU were blocking the initiative as they were not prepared to fund the 'top year' of the degree. It is not clear how this has been resolved but SHU are now back on board and are trying to fix up meeting times.
For the validation we need to complete several Business Planning documents (BPO1-3). SHU are doing most of this. We have to complete a long document called a definitive document, that includes things such as, all the details of the course, justification, assessment methods, and module descriptors. We've written the opening sections and drafted out the module descriptors. SHU want to meet to divi up the remaining work - we have examples of previous definitive documents to look at
Organisation of Course and Production of Content
We are making tentative steps into this area. We have a broad outline organised and a site map in place. We have identified content for each module, some modules are firmed up, some not so. This is a big job and I had hoped that we could have got further on with this but we have had to resolve other things first. There have also been important educational issues to think about as well - these have become unexpectedly pressing as some of the content has been written
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
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Hi
I will follow this with interest Phil
The meeting we had on Tuesday was very productive. One of the chief things I learned was that the JISC funding is to enable us to evaluate blogs and wikis as educational tools. (Yes, I had been told before but hadn't really listened.)
In order to do this meaningfully we need to understand how they have been used in the past, and to have a 'plan of action'. I have been reading through some of the stuff you sent Phil, and will comment in my blog about it.
Hi Dru and Kate,
Yes, it is a nightmare, we are being given money for one thing and doing another.
And, of course, SYeLP have another agenda too, and SHU and TSC.
Ta
Phil
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